Bard vs Annie
How to Beat Annie as Bard
based on 1,674 Bard vs Annie matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Bard vs Annie Matchup Summary
Best Bard vs Annie Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Annie as Bard
Tips for Playing as Bard against Annie
Don't forget that enemies can also use your Magical Journey doorways, and that your ultimate can also hit your allies!
Let your Caretaker's Shrines charge up - they heal for a lot more when at full power.
It's important to collect chimes to improve your meep's attacks, but don't neglect your lane partner! Try to make a big entrance by bringing an ally into the lane with you with Magical Journey.
Advice to Win Against Annie
Annie's summoned bear, Tibbers, burns opposing units around himself. Try to keep your distance from him after he's been summoned.
Keep an eye out for a white, swirling power around Annie. It means she's ready to unleash her stun.
Summoner Smite can be used to help take down Tibbers.
Bard vs Annie Counter Stats
How to Counter Annie with Bard in LoL
The stats shown here underscore some significant Bard versus Annie counter stats that can help us explain the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Bard’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Annie’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Bard may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Annie. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Bard normally has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his foe does. Commonly, he receives a similar amount of damage to Annie. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Bard and Annie
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Who is Better, Bard or Annie?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Bard usually fairs equally well when playing against Annie, with a 50.5% win rate. Thus, Bard makes an ok counter to Annie.
While Bard does have a higher winrate than Annie, when they face off with one another, Bard also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Bard into Annieas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Bard has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Annie. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Bard vs Annie matchups, Bard is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Bard is a decent counter to Annie. Make sure you focus your actions on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Bard against Annie.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Bard in order to counter Annie during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Bard on average racks up a lot less CS as Annie. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Bard versus Annie build include Kaenic Rookern, Bloodsong, and Imperial Mandate. When Bard incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did much better vs. Annie than with many other common builds. In fact, Bard boasted an average winrate of 50.5% when countering Annie with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of defeating Annie as Bard, you should use the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace, Conditioning, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Bard vs Annie LoL games, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.5% win rate overall.
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